Bigotry in the Potterverse

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 188109



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, sistermagpie at ... wrote:
>
> > Rick: (or at least I think it's Rick... somebody isn't attributing remarks where
> > the writer changes)
> > > Besides, there aren't very many time markers in the Muggleville timeline
> > > to place the stories even within a decade--The Ford Anglia is all I can
> > > think of off hand (produced 1959-1967). The other items: flush toilets,
> > > double-decker buses, TV, Radio all predate the Anglia.
> > 
> > Geoff:
> > There is more evidence. In "The Letters from no One" in "Philosopher's
> > Stone", Dudley gets a clip round the ear because he is trying to take his
> > computer.
> 
> Magpie:
> And Dudley also gets a computer game at one point, doesn't he? One that technically came out a few years after the story is taking place? And Harry's birthdate is 1980, isn't it? I can't remember if they ever say that specifically in the books. We know Grindelwald was defeated in 1945, and Lord Voldemort's life has some dates. 
> 
> -m
>

Montavilla47:

The headstones for James and Lily Potter give their birth years.  They were both born in 1960.  I forget if we have text evidence for them dying at 21 years.  I think there was something about Sirius going to jail when he was 22?  

But the strongest book date has aways been that Deathday party in CoS.